The 1940s are credited as the height of classic film noir, initially gaining notoriety with iconic movies such as The Maltese Falcon, Out of the Past, and D.O.A. Throughout the decade, countless ...

From 'The Big Heat' to 'The Maltese Falcon', these are the best noir movies based on IMDb ratings. Check the full list for a ...

Following World War II in the 1940s, an onslaught of crime movies came out of Hollywood as moody stories were on the minds of filmmakers and audiences, popularizing the noir genre. Often in black ...

Emerging in the latter years of World War II, film noir was a creative response to the weariness and pessimism that was ...

Robert Siodmak made particularly dreamlike blends of noir thriller, gothic melodrama, and horror. Ella Raines was his go-to ...

“Laura,” like many other 1940s black-and-white noir ... For anyone interested in film noir this November, “Sunset Boulevard” is a must-see exploration of the dark side of Hollywood.

Vertiginous German-language mind-scrambler The Universal Theory is one of a kind — a visually dazzling retro exercise in paranoid Alpine sci-fi noir. It’s rather as if Philip K Dick had rewritten ...